East Falmouth teen accused of possessing illegal cigarettes

FALMOUTH — An East Falmouth man was arrested Thursday for allegedly possessing drugs and several boxes of cigarettes without a state tax stamp, police said.

FALMOUTH — An East Falmouth man was arrested Thursday for allegedly possessing drugs and several boxes of cigarettes without a state tax stamp, police said.

At 12:19 p.m., police responded to the Sprint/Nextel store on Teaticket Highway and found Ryan Clark, 18, peering in the store window. While Clark was rifling through his pockets looking for identification, police spotted a pack of Marlboro cigarettes without a Massachusetts tax stamp.

A search of Clark and his car turned up two more boxes of cigarettes — with Russian labels and no state tax stamp — as well as a bottle cap and cotton ball with Percocet residue, police said.

Clark pleaded not guilty yesterday in Falmouth District Court to possession of a Class B substance and possession of less than 12,000 cigarettes without a Massachusetts tax stamp, according to court records. He faces a pretrial hearing July 28.